MA in Education: Rome Centre

The main blog homepage now has an updated look and contains the latest programme information across all our modes of delivery. This is to ensure a more consistent approach and to help create a better community of learners as the number of students across out progammes grows (and grows!).
Please check out the homepage and the new oxford blog for viewing examples of work: Gallery

Thanks for your RPD second reviews - some great poems, pictures and observations.
We met to debrief yesterday (Wednesday) and are just recovering - it was an intense couple of days at what felt like the end of a long, dark, half term!
Great discussion on the presentation assignment - we will be reviewing this - see Robin’s email on Monday. We will revisit the assessment criteria and make them fit for purpose. Your comments/assessment statements welcome - especially around the learning outcomes for AR to be found in the handbook. We agreed to make this a pass/fail element worth 2000 words - this does not suit everybody but for this time around feels like a helpful compromise. Personally I’d like to see the presentations graded but with a more focused mark grid. I’d also like to discuss other options - peer assessment, option to write 6000 words, film/blog submission, podcast, place of interaction, sense of audience - sense of the learner and learning that takes place, space for a reflective commentary…Hit the comments button!

Just a reminder to look occasionally at the ’sister’ Amsterdam Blog.
Most of the resources are similar but they are 1 year ahead so if you have a dull moment - take a peek into the future!
Happy Saturday tasks:
RPD update - check out the Second review page under RPD.
Open up this document and work through - it should be fairly self explanatory.
When you get to the section on 6 Hats you can either work through this as an interesting thinking tool (and one that develops the PMI tool you used yesterday) or scan in and attach as a PDF your PMI review from yesterday (the photocopier in the staffroom will do this - Naomi is an expert - non-St George’s students may need some assistance in sending/picking up the PDF).
If you would rather do all this tomorrow and talk to a tutor during this time - we are all yours!

Also please note a new page - Toolkit for Research under AR - this is a useful resource and reference from the NFER.